Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
• Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
• Expertise in scaling frameworks like Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS.
• Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
• Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• Develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.